Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them.
VOLTAIREThe human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
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It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
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Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
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Perfect is the enemy of good.
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Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
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God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.
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I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
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